Selecting ensemble members to provide regional climate change information

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 7100-7121

  McSweeney, Carol F ^a   Jones, Richard G ^a   Booth, Ben B B ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asia; Climate change; Ensembles; Experimental design; Model evaluation performance; Regional effects

Indexed keywords

ASIA; ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; DOWN-SCALING; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; ENSEMBLES; FUTURE CLIMATE; FUTURE PROJECTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; MEAN FIELD; MODEL EVALUATION; MODEL PREDICTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING SYSTEMS; REGIONAL EFFECTS; REGIONAL RESPONSE; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; AUTOMATIC INDEXING; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

ASIA;

EID: 84867671626     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00526.1     Document Type: Article

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